It has been celebrated as The Emperor's Birthday from 1927 to 1988, then renamed as Greenery Day after Hirohito's death in 1989.

Economic requirements triumphed over environmental considerations when the Soviet-era Nairit plant was reopened in January 1992 after being closed in 1989 because of the massive air pollution it caused.

* 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

The Communists dissolved the party in 1947, but it reformed in 1989 after Communism collapsed.

* 1989 – 1, 645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

Soon after 21: 00 on December 14, 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress.

She once had a neighbour's donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its " sexual harassment " of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey's owner in 1989.

After his lowest point output since his rookie season, Federko decided to retire after the 1989 – 90 season, having played exactly 1, 000 NHL games.

A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with Goldman Sachs as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the Courts found against the two year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself in order to circumvent the intent of the legislators.

Other gender-free dance groups started up in the area after that, and in 1989, at the gender-free dance group in Jamaica Plain, MA, a group of dancers led by Janet Dillon protested the use of these terms, and the armband system was devised: the traditionally male-role dancers would wear armbands and be called " armbands " or just " bands ," and the traditionally female-role dancers would be called " bare arms " or just " bares.

Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989 – 2001.

Hole played their first show in November 1989 at Raji's after three months of rehearsal, and began making singles on the Long Beach, California, independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

The first post-Soviet Ukrainian Census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine in 2001, 12 years after the last All-Union census in 1989.

In the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, residents of San Francisco's Marina District help run lengths of fire hose from a fireboat to firefighters ashore after the hydrant system failed.

There has been a gradual relaxation of Marxist interpretation after the death of Mao in 1976, which was accelerated after the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and Revolutions of 1989, which have damaged Marxism's ideological legitimacy in the eyes of Chinese people.

* 1989 – Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada ; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.

* 1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

* 1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.

Restoration of the Old Town began after 1989.

Six other Libyans were put on trial in absentia for the 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772 over Chad and Niger.

Retrieved 19 July 2006 .</ ref > In 1999, six other Libyans who had been accused of the September 1989 bombing of Union Air Transport Flight 772 were put on trial in their absence by a Paris court.

In 1989, after a five-month trial in Belgium, 14 Liverpool fans were given three-year sentences for involuntary manslaughter ; half of the terms were suspended.

In July 1989, a number of the mercenaries were returned to Maldives to stand trial.

Research forerunners of today's location-based services are the infrared Active Badge system ( 1989 – 1993 ), The Ericsson-Europolitan GSM LBS trial ran during 1995 by Jörgen Johansson and the master thesis written by Nokia employee Timo Rantalainen, in 1994.

His adjunct, Jean Leguay, committed suicide in 1989 10 years after he was indicted for crimes against humanity for his role in the Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup of July 1942, but before he went to trial.

After the trial, Irving published Leuchter's report as Auschwitz The End of the Line: The Leuchter Report in the United Kingdom in 1989 and wrote its foreword.

In 1989, the American Bar Association rated this as one of the 12 best trial films of all time.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd Edition, 1989 ), empiric is derived from the ancient Greek for experience,, which is ultimately derived from " in " + " trial, experiment ".

After a week-long trial of The Newlywed Game on ABC in 1984 ( with Dating Game emcee Jim Lange ), Barris produced the daily Newlywed Game ( titled The New Newlywed Game ) in syndication from 1985 to 1989, with original host Eubanks ( and in 1988, comedian Paul Rodriguez ).

In 1989, Boris V. Brokhovich told The New York Times in an interview that development of the bomb had been a matter of trial and error.

The criminal trial ended in August 1990 with a conviction for only one possession incident, which had occurred in November 1989, and an acquittal on another.

Bob Denard then waited in the Médoc region, in France, for his trial for the murder of president Ahmed Abdallah in 1989.

In 1989, the invasion of Panama took place and Manuel Noriega was captured and put on trial.

The stage was won by David Millar who, despite illness and the adverse weather, set the second fastest time trial in the Tour, 54. 358 km / h ( Greg LeMond 54. 545 km / h ( 1989 )).

In the 1989 edition of the Tour de France eventual winner Greg LeMond made up a 50-second deficit to runner-up Laurent Fignon in the final stage individual time trial to win the race by 8 seconds, the smallest margin ever.

They were first brought into the time trialling public eye in the 1989 Tour de France when Greg Lemond overcame a 50-second deficit in the final day's time trial to win the Tour by 8 seconds from Frenchman Laurent Fignon.

The head of IOR from 1971 to 1989, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, was under consideration for indictment in 1982 in Italy as an accessory of the bankruptcy ; however, he was never brought to trial due to the Italian courts ' ruling that the priest, being a high-ranking prelate of the Vatican, had diplomatic immunity from prosecution.

Târgoviște was the site of the trial and execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena in December 1989.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) commenced a trial of the excimer laser in 1989.

After leaving the Church of Scientology in 1989, Young became prominent as an expert in court cases regarding Scientology such as CSI v. Fishman and Geertz, BPI v. FACTNet, the Lisa McPherson civil trial, cited by the press, and as an Internet-based critic of the organization.

A full trial might have exposed any such documents to public scrutiny as the defence were expected to argue that trying to stop an illegal act ( that of an illegal war of aggression ) trumped Gun's obligations under the Official Secrets Act 1989.

His wife, Leona Helmsley — notoriously called the " Queen of Mean " — was convicted in 1989 on federal charges of tax evasion in a celebrated trial.

* A still from the film – the final " escalator " scene, with the trial court reunited at Carter's surgery – was used as the cover for Phil Collins's 1989 single " Something Happened on the Way to Heaven ".